The Apocalypse of Abraham

Pseudonymously attributed to the patriarch Abraham; actual author unknown, a Jewish apocalyptic work usually dated to the late 1st or early 2nd century AD, written in the shadow of the Second Temple's destruction. Survives complete only in Old Church Slavonic. The first part retells, in vivid folktale form, Abraham's rejection of his father Terah's idols; the second is a heavenly-ascent apocalypse in which Abraham, guided by the angel Jaoel, beholds the divine throne, the fall of Adam and Eve, and a vision of Israel's future suffering and final vindication.